Episode
Laverne & Shirley: Defective Ballet
Overview
Squiggy is mistaken for a Russion ballet dancer who is trying to defect to the United States.
Details
- Series
- Laverne & Shirley
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1983-01-11
Episode context
Defective Ballet is Episode 12 in Season 8 of Laverne & Shirley. It aired on 1983-01-11.
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Episode 11: The Monastery Show
Laverne, upset with the way her life has been going, asks if she can stay at a convent for a couple of weeks to try and sort things out. The Mother Superior lets her stay but then asks her to leave when she has trouble keeping the vow of silence that all the other Sisters have taken.
Episode 13: The Baby Show
Sgt. Plout once again shows up on Laverne's doorstep. This time she is pregnant and looking for a place to stay. Plout and Laverne enter a mothers-to-be contest and then go to a funeral home to pay their respect to one of Frank's buddies. While at the funeral home, Sgt. Plout goes into labor and delivers her baby.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Gymnast
Laverne is convinced that the former trapeze artist she's been dating is out to kill her.
Episode 14: Rock 'n' Roll Show
Laverne talks her wacky friend Chuck into forming his own band after he plays Beethoven on his harmonica. Laverne is also on a special diet for her ulcer and back at the flat Carmine is trying to stop Laverne from eating all the wrong foods. Chuck shows Laverne his new band, a bunch of geeky looking guys enter and proceed to put Laverne to sleep with their classical playing. Laverne tells Chuck he has to play rock music if he wants to make big money. The guys trust Laverne so much that they've quit their jobs to become big musicians. Laverne tries to show them how to jazz up their act a little, but the results are still terrible. To make things worse, Squiggy has just gotten the band their first job. He tells them that they are to perform in 20 minutes. Laverne has to read out to the massive crowd that the Rolling Stones won't be performing and that instead her friend Chuck's band will be playing instead. Amazingly to everyone, the band plays extremely well and goes over a smash. It
Episode 9: Of Mice and Men
Laverne's plan to restore her cowardly boyfriend's self-confidence backfires.
Episode 15: The Fashion Show
Jealous of all the beautiful girls her new photographer boyfriend has to take pictures of, Laverne goes to a fashion show where he is working and ends up being one of the models in the show.
Episode 8: Jinxed
When Laverne is convinced that she is jinxed after refusing to answer a chain letter, her friends send her a ""gypsy"" to help her.
Episode 16: Short on Time
When Frank finds a note from Edna saying that she has left him, he goes to Laverne's to talk to her about it. Laverne, who doesn't know that Edna has left, asks her father to stay at the apartment and babysit Little Chucky who is a chimp, because she has gotten a chance to sing with The Spinners as Rhonda gave her the winning woman. While singing with the group, she feels guilty about leaving her father when he wanted to talk to her so she rushes back home and learns about Edna leaving. The show ends with Little Chucky waiting on tables at Cowboy Bills.
Episode 7: Death Row (2)
While waiting to be booked at the police station for the bank robbery, Laverne and her new 'friend' are mistaken for murderers who were on the run. They are both sentenced to be executed at midnight that night.
Episode 17: Ghost Story
Laverne and the gang hold a seance to rid her apartment of a ghost that has taken up residence there.
Episode 6: Death Row (1)
Laverne makes friends with a group of people that she doesn't know are really a gang who plan to rob a bank. When she goes to the bank with them she thinks it is only to get new dishes that the bank is giving away with every new account that is opened. When she realizes what is actually happening it's too late because the police have already arrived. Laverne is handcuffed along with the rest of the gang and they are all carted off to jail.
Episode 18: Please Don't Feed the Buzzards
Lenny and Squiggy find a treasure map and convince Frank and Carmine to go with them to search for gold.